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n.
A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.
a.
Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.
n.
The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.
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A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
a.
Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
n.
An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.
n.
The Doric dialect.
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A Doric phrase or idiom.
n.
The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
v.
The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
n.
The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column
n.
A Doric phrase or idiom.
n.
One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
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The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
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The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
n.
A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
a.
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
n.
The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
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Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
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A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta.
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